
The 97th Academy Awards Nominations and Predictions
The 2025 Academy Awards are on Sunday March 2nd. Here I will list the nominees along with my predicted winner. Let me know your thoughts on who should win in the comments. I will mark my predictions in bold.
Best picture
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- I’m Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best actor in a leading role
- Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress in a leading role
- Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
- Mikey Madison, Anora
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best actor in a supporting role
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
- Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best actress in a supporting role
- Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
- Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best director
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
- Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best cinematography
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria
- Nosferatu
Best international feature film
- I’m Still Here
- The Girl with the Needle
- Emilia Pérez
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Flow
Best adapted screenplay
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
Best original screenplay
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Real Pain
- September 5
- The Substance
Best live action short film
- A Lien
- Anuja
- I’m Not a Robot
- The Last Ranger
- A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short film
- Beautiful Men
- In the Shadow of the Cypress
- Magic Candies
- Wander to Wonder
- Yuck!
Best animated feature film
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Best documentary short
- Death By Numbers
- I Am Ready, Warden
- Incident
- Instruments of a Beating Heart
- The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best documentary feature film
- Black Box Diaries
- No Other Land
- Porcelain War
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
- Sugarcane
Best original song
- El Mal, from Emilia Pérez
- The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight
- Like a Bird, from Sing Sing
- Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez
- Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late
Best original score
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best makeup and hairstyling
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best costume design
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best editing
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
Best sound
- A Complete Unknown
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best production design
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best visual effects
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Dune: Part Two
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
I hope Wicked wins.
The “Substance” is a good choice for the original screenplay award. I hope it will get to win because it has all the elements that should make it happen as far as I am concerned.
It was a very unique movie!
I’m wondering what the criteria is for judging the best. Some people in the US have criticized these sorts of awards, because they claim people are just getting awarded in a DEI fashion. Anyway, myself, I can’t deny at least some instances of it. It just seems like something fishy is going on. Who agrees with me?